Committee Formed To Address Revenue Collections Dispute

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In a statement to Gurtong Wednesday, the CES Finance Minister Jacob Aligo explained that the committee headed by him and the First Undersecretary of the National Ministry of Finance is given two weeks to address the problem.

“The committee will look at the complaints of CES and then also look at a possibility whether the states if they will take the responsibility of collecting the revenues on behalf of the Central Government. We reverse the order so the state will collect and give the central government its percentage,” said Aligo.

The committee will also review whether a few of the targets of the centralized policy have been achieved in the recent months prior to its implementation in May.

A row erupted over revenue collections intensified between the CES and National government after CES threatened to pull out from the revenue collections being centralized since May this year on grounds that there is no transparency over the management of the resources by the national government.

The committee is headed by the Jacob Aligo and Mr. Salvatore Garang, the First Undersecretary of the National Ministry of Finance and Economic planning and is expected to finalize the task assigned in two weeks time.

Aligo said the Committee will present its report to a joint meeting that will be chaired by the CES Governor Clement Wani Konga and National Minister of Finance Kosti Manibe.

According to the announcement of the CES Governor in the previous week, the CES government is supposed to start collecting its revenue collections today.

The central government had in May this year centralized the revenue collections with an aim of minimizing double taxation system where both authorities of the National and states governments are all involved in taxing goods and services contributing to high prices of goods and services in the country.

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